New Report Shows Need for Improved Services for Homeless and At-risk Women Veterans
New Report Shows Need for Improved Services for Homeless and At-risk Women Veterans Synchrony Financial and the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans partner to build better data, improve solutions Recognizing the trend of an increasing number of women in the homeless veteran populations, Synchrony Financial and the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans conducted a survey to gather better data to identify reasons behind this trend and to identify and guide the implementation of better solutions moving forward. The resulting report, Families that Work Partnership to Assist Women Veterans with Children, reveals several areas of inadequacy in communities’ attempts to assist homeless women veterans and homeless women veterans with children. Some of these areas are common factors for all homeless veterans, but factors that stood out as more prevalent among women veterans include: Child care issues Intimate partner violence Fear of being separated from children P